What to do with your wedding bouquet: how to dry & preserve a wedding bouquet!

Your wedding day festivities are done with and now you have to decide what to do with your wedding bouquet. After all you spent a mini fortunate on it, it would be a waste to just let all those beautiful flowers die!

No worries, I’m here to share a super easy, quick, and free way that you can preserve your wedding bouquet for years to come.

I have had mine for 4 years now, still looks quite pleasing in a beautiful box right on top of my bedroom dresser. Below you can see what it looked like on my wedding day. It was a gorgeous peony bouquet! My favorite flower. So here is what I did to preserve my bouquet.

 

How to preserve wedding bouquet with hairspray

Step 1: Keep your bouquet hydrated

Keep your wedding bouquet hydrated and in water if possible. After the ceremony and pictures are over with, put your bouquet in a vase with water. I kept mine in the sweetheart table.

When I got to the hotel I made sure to put the bouquet in water again.

Step 2: how to dry a bridal bouquet

Once you are home give your bouquet a good shower of hairspray. You can even buy a whole bottom of cheap hairspray to use on it. Be generous with it, making sure it got a really good coat of the hairspray

Step 3: how to preserve a wedding bouquet

Hang your bouquet upside down, making sure that is not touching anything so the flowers can keep their best shape. I hung mine under I stool I had in the kitchen.

Leave the bouquet to dry, this will take a couple of days. Every couple of days I would spray again with hairspray.

Step 4: What to do with your wedding bouquet after is dried

Once the bouquet is fully dry display in your favorite glass box!

Now that your wedding bouquet is all dry use it to decorate your home with it. I use the card glass box from my wedding to display the flowers. This glass box it’s beautiful and I was able to reuse two things from my wedding! It did cracked a little when we moved, but since is still together I’m still using it 😆.

I also kept the cake topper and some other keepsakes from my wedding in the box. I think this is a great idea on how to make sure that your wedding bouquet is not only preserved but it can be used to decorate your home. Also, it’s free!!

I display it on top of my Ikea malm dresser in the master bedroom. But it would look beautiful displayed in a shelf or even a coffee table.

Now, the envelope glass box that I used above is sold out. I have found a similar one and linked for you below.

So what do you think of this idea? Did you preserve your wedding bouquet?!

 

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Ceres

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